On the use of hybrid vertical coordinates in ocean circulation modeling

Ocean Weather Forecasting: An Integrated View of Oceanography

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 109-126

  Bleck, Rainer ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

hybrid coordinate; Ocean models; vertical coordinate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890136612     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4028-8_4     Document Type: Chapter

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